「謎の未確認動物"ビッグフット"だ!」 ワシにつけた小型カメラに映ったものは......(動画)

誰もがこれが大スクープだと確信しているわけではない。

可愛らしいひな鳥から、予期しない訪問者死んだ猫を含む)に至るまで、ワシにつけた小型カメラ「イーグルカメラ」にはなんでも映っている。

そう、謎の未確認動物(UMA)ビッグフットも映っているかもしれない。ビッグフットとは、ロッキー山脈にいるという、雪男のような伝説の怪物だ。

あるイーグルカメラが、猿人のような生物が地面を歩き回るのを捉えた。これこそが、ビッグフットではないかという憶測が飛び交っている。

「デトロイト・フリープレス」紙によると、黒い人影のようなものが5月にミシガン州ベウラにあるプラット・リバー州孵化場で撮影された。

ミシガン州天然資源省とアウトドアウェブサイト「カーボンTV」が、ワシの親子の生態を観察するためにカメラを設置したが、CaobonTVのコンテンツ&マーケティング・エグゼクティブ・ディレクターのダニエル・セリガー氏によると、最近になってカーボンTVの動画編集者が偶然、ビッグフットの目撃情報を扱っているサイトに映像の一部が掲載されているのを見つけ、注目を集めているのがわかったという。

以来、映像は編集されて拡散し、ビッグフットらしき生物が歩き回っている場面が拡大されて映し出されている。見たところ、2本足で木や茂みの周りを歩いている。

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ビッグフットか?ミシガン州でワシの巣の上に取り付けたカメラが黒い猿人のような生物が歩き回るのを捉えた。

特にSNSでは、信じる人も中にはいるが、誰もがこれが大スクープだと確信しているわけではない。アイダホ州立大学のビッグフット研究家ジェフリー・メルドラムは懐疑的だ。

彼は映像を見た後「興味を引く映像だが、どこか違う気がします。大きさや、体形の細かい部分がおかしいようです」と、デトロイト・フリープレス紙に語った。

ミシガン州天然資源省は、独自の解釈はせず、それぞれに任せるとしている。

「このYouTubeの映像にある人影のようなものについては、何であるかを特定することはしません」と、天然資源省の広報担当者ジョン・ペピン氏は10月6日、ハフポストUS版に語った。

ということで、ビッグフットかもしれないが、エルヴィス・プレスリーか、 1975年に失踪した全米トラック運転手組合会長ジミー・ホッファか、あるいはドナルド・トランプの会計士ってことも ... あなたは何だと思いますか?

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Bigfoot Raises Its Hairy Head To Kick Off 2014(01 of22)
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You just can\'t keep a good, hairy beast down -- that is, unless it\'s allegedly real, and it\'s supposedly dead. The year got off to a big, Bigfoot start, with promoter Rick Dyer claiming to have killed one of the beasts and was taking the body on tour for the public to pay and see. Problem was, when push came to shove, Dyer apparently couldn\'t get many venues interested enough in his Bigfoot traveling show, and it ended up being a no-show. Dyer eventually admitted to the hoax. (credit:bigfoottoday.com)
(02 of22)
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This still image taken from a 1977 film purports to show Bigfoot in California. (credit:AP)
(03 of22)
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A film still shows what former rodeo rider Roger Patterson said is the American version of the Abominable Snowman of Nepal and Tibet. The film of the tall creature was shot by Patterson and Robert Gimlin northeast of Eureka, Calif., in October 1967. (credit:Bettmann / Corbis)
Ohio Bigfoot Encounter -- April 2012(04 of22)
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As a motor biker was driving through the Grand River area of Ohio in April 2012, an alleged Bigfoot ran across the road and was caught on videotape. (credit:HowTo101Channel / YouTube)
(05 of22)
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Depicted is an illustration of a creature reported to inhabit the Kemerovo region of Siberia. Scientists from the U.S., Russia and other countries have yet to find one of these creatures known as the Russian Snowman. In early October, researchers claimed to be 95 percent certain that the animal exists. (credit:International Cryptozoology Museum)
(06 of22)
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An alleged footprint of a Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, appears in snow near Mount Everest in 1951. Now, scientists are setting out to find evidence of a reported unknown, hairy, bipedal creature known as the Siberian Snowman. (credit:Topical Press Agency, Getty Images)
(07 of22)
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Bigfoot or bear? Impression left on the driver\'s side window of a pickup truck owned by Jeffrey Gonzalez. The bizarre image was left by an alleged Bigfoot in California\'s Sierra National Forest over Memorial Day 2011. DNA samples of the impressions will eventually determine the identity of the animal responsible for them. (See next slide for a close-up of the paw-like impression.) (credit:Mickey Burrow)
(08 of22)
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Close-up of the \"paw\" print image. The impression was reportedly left by Bigfoot on the window of a pickup truck in the California Sierra National Forest over Memorial Day weekend 2011. (credit:Mickey Burrow)
(09 of22)
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Bigfoot or bear? Pictured is a second impression left on the rear side window of the same truck from the previous slides. According to forensic/law enforcement photographer Mickey Burrow, \"What you\'re seeing is a swipe mark. It looks like a small hand, swiping to the left, leaving another impression, and there\'s hair within those areas -- you can see where the hair would be.\" (credit:Mickey Burrow)
(10 of22)
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This footprint was found over Memorial Day weekend, 2011, near Fresno, Calif. by a group of campers who were on a Bigfoot-hunting expedition. The print, measuring approximately 12 inches, was found near a truck where possible DNA evidence was left behind by more than one Bigfoot creature. (credit:Copyright Jeffrey Gonzalez)
(11 of22)
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This footprint was found in 2008 in the Sierra National Forest near Fresno, Calif. (credit:Copyright David Raygoza)
(12 of22)
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Thomas Byers snapped this photo of \"Bigfoot\" along Golden Valley Church Road in Rutherford County on March 22, 2011. (credit:Courtesy Thomas Byers)
(13 of22)
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Bill Willard is the leader of a group searching for evidence of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot creature, spotted by, among others, his two sons in Spotsylvania County. He is shown on May 19 in Thornburg, Va., with a plaster cast he made from a suspicious footprint several years ago. (credit:Bill O\'Leary, Washington Post / Getty Images)
(14 of22)
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This still frame image from video provided by Bigfoot Global LLC shows what Whitton and Dyer claimed was a Bigfoot or Sasquatch creature in an undisclosed area of a northern Georgia forest in June 2008. (credit:Bigfoot Global LLC / AP)
(15 of22)
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This October 2007 image was taken by an automated camera set up by a hunter in a Pennsylvania forest the previous month. Some said it was a Bigfoot creature; others believed it was just a sick bear. (credit:Rick Jacobs, AP)
(16 of22)
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A preserved skull and hand said to be that of a Yeti or Abominable Snowman is on display at Pangboche monastery, near Mount Everest. (credit:Ernst Haas, Getty Images)
(17 of22)
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Idaho State University professor Jeffrey Meldrum displays what he said is a cast of a Bigfoot footprint from eastern Washington in September 2006. Some scientists said the school should revoke Meldrum\'s tenure. (credit:Jesse Harlan Alderman, AP)
(18 of22)
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Joedy Cook, director of the Ohio Center for Bigfoot Studies, talks to a visitor to his booth on Oct. 15, 2005, at the Texas Bigfoot Conference in Jefferson, Texas. The event, hosted by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, drew enthusiasts and researchers of the legendary creature. (credit:D.J. Peters, AP)
(19 of22)
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Ken Gerhard of Houston, Texas, holds a duplicate plaster cast footprint Oct. 15, 2005, at the Texas Bigfoot Conference. The event, hosted by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, drew enthusiasts and researchers of the legendary creature. (credit:D.J. Peters, AP)
(20 of22)
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Josh Gates, host of Syfy TV\'s \"Destination: Truth,\" holds a plaster cast of what Malaysian ghost hunters said was a Bigfoot footprint in 2006. (credit:Seekers-Malaysia / AP)
(21 of22)
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Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem in California, holds up a plaster cast of an alleged Bigfoot imprint in 2000. The museum houses a collection of research material donated by the estate of Bob Titmus, who spent his life trying to track the creature. (credit:Rich Pedroncelli, AP)
(22 of22)
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Costume maker Philip Morris, who does not believe the Bigfoot legend, claimed the Patterson-Gimlin film showed a person wearing a gorilla suit that he made. (credit:T. Ortega Gaines, Charlotte Observer / MCT)

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